May 18, 2013

Dr. Goutham Narla Discovers a Novel Drug Combination to Treat Advanced Lung Cancer

Dr. Goutham Narla and his team have found that by using a combination of two FDA approved drugs – Erlotinib and Trifluoperazine – a process that is causing lung tumor cells to die can be initiated. A team of researchers led by Dr. Goutham Narla at Case Western Reserve University […]
April 19, 2013

Blake Smith has done extraordinary cancer research: 1 of the 26 Most Impressive Students At Yale Right Now

Class of 2016 Blake Smith has worked in cell biology labs since he was 16, first at Mount Sinai  School of Medicine and now at Yale Medical School. As a high school junior, he won first place in the category of Cellular and  Molecular Biology at the Intel International Science […]
March 13, 2013

YSF Inaugural Benefit Dinner a Smashing Success!!

Five of New York’s top chefs and 110 generous guests enjoyed one outstanding evening together at North End Grill in Battery Park City on March 11. YSF’s inaugural benefit dinner raised over $70,000 to support the mission of providing mentorship and lab experience to young investigators researching new ways to […]
March 13, 2013

A Laboratory Grows Young Scientists

OSSINING, N.Y. — During lunch hour, the hallways of Ossining High School have a kind of barely contained chaos. Whistles bleed from the gym, students squeeze every last minute of freedom before they’re due back in class. Even the library, where Dan McQuaid sat with two of his science teachers […]
January 29, 2013

First Harrington Distinguished Scholar brings breast cancer research to Cleveland

  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Last spring, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University recruited a physician-scientist whose key discoveries — made while in medical school — of a gene that suppresses cancerous tumors first put him on the scientific map more than a dozen years ago. A […]
October 1, 2012

Fox 8 News at Noon Cleveland – Research may be taking us one step closer to a cure for lung cancer

July 18, 2012 Les Coleman was a non-smoker and led an active life fact of life. He was also a lifelong researcher so when the opportunity to join a clinical trial at Seideman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center arose, he jumped on it. We thought that he […]
October 1, 2012

Dr. Goutham Narla awarded first Harrington Distinguished Scholar

University Hospitals Harrington Discovery Institute’s first Harrington Distinguished Scholar (Early Career Award) is Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine, and a leading physician-scientist recruited from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His laboratory focuses […]
September 14, 2012

RYU Opens a Snack Window; Num Pang Gives Back With Floyd Cardoz

Num Pang is teaming up with Floyd Cardoz to benefit charity as a part of their Chefs Give Back series. Both Num Pang shops will serve the Cardoz Pang — black-pepper lamb braised in yogurt and spices on a toasted semolina baguette with chili yogurt, pickled red cabbage, carrots, cucumber, […]